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(fthe iHrlluffte Prog 'Wtfkm VO.. XXIV. THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1923. NI MUm 40. FRED M. HATCHER j. TEMPLE GRAVES INSTANTLY KILLED Harlem, Ga., Sept. 26.—Fred M. Hatcher, prominent merchant and farmer of Harlem, was instantly killed early Monday night when the automobile in which he was riding wrecked on the Harlem-Appling highway six miles from Harlem, near the home of Mrs. W. A. Phillips. The accident is believed to have been caused by the locking of the rear axle of the machine. Mrs. W. A. Phillips was the first tq reach the scene. She said that she heard a terrible crash and rush ed from her house, and about 300 yards down the road towards Har lem found the car turned bottom up and Mr. Hatcher’s body lying just a few feet to the rear of it. He was then dead, she added, and had ap parently been killed instantly. There were no eye-witnesses of the acci dent. Mr. Hatcher had been at Appling during the entire day attending su perior court which convened there Monday morning. He was among the last to leave the courthouse and at 6 o’clock was in conversation with Solicitor George Hains who was pre paring to leave in his automobile for Augusta. Some time after 6 o’clock, Mr. Hatcher started home in his roadster. Mrs. Phillips said that she heard the crash near 7 o’clock. Mr. Hatcher was a prominent Ma son. He was a member of Harlem Lodge No. 276, of Georgia Comman- dery No. 1, Knights Templar, and of Okad Shrine Club, of Augusta. Not only in his home town and county was he known but he also en joyed a wide circle of friends in Augusta and throughout the state. Besides his wife, Mrs. Jennie Hatcher, who will most of all grieve his untimely death, he is survived by his father, Mr. W. E. Hatcher and his step mother, Mrs. W. E. Hatcher, of Harlem; four brothers, Earnest W. Hatcher and Hulon 0. Hatcher, of Harlem; Vernon F. Hatcher, of Atlanta and George O. Hatcher, of Social Circle, Ga.; one sister, Miss Evelyn Hatcher, of Harlem, who is AND SEN. HARRIS To The Editors of Georgia: When Senator Wm. J. Harris en tered the Senate of the United States, after his wonderfully rapid rise from private life, I wrote for one; of the current magazines a prediction that when his term was ended, he would be written in the records as perhaps not the most eloquent, but certainly as one of the most practical and use ful men who had served Georgia in that great assembly. The results of Senator Harris’ first term now two-thirds completed, have abundantly vindicated my prediction. He has had four years in the Sen ate. During this time he has had four different colleagues and today he is the Senior Senator from Geor gia. He can soberly challenge the record that, within these years he has secured as much or more for Georgia—for Georgia men and wo men—for Georgia interests, as any previous Senator has done since Joe Brown utilized his “judgment” and his tact in the service of the state. I congratulate myself that I am not a bad judge of men. Senator Harris has won the honor of a membership on the great Ap propriations Committee of the Sen ate which handles all bills to provide money for the government under the budget system. He is the one Sen ator on that committee from the en tire southeast, and, excepting Senator Owen of Oklahoma, he is the only Southern member of the committee from North Carolina to Mexico. He is a member, and in several cases the ranking member of six sub-committees which actually draft the bills—the War Department, Post- office Department, including federal aid for good roads, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, Department of the Inter ior and the legislative establishments. The committees of Immigration and Territories complete his important assignments. Through alert and active service the Senator has been largely instru mental in assisting the various mili- WEEKLY DIGEST FROM THE NATION’S CAPITAL n6w attending Wesleyan College at tary activities in Georgia with ade- Macon, and numerous other relatives, Funeral services were conducted at the residence Monday at 5 o’clock, Dr. W. J. Quillian, of Augusta; Rev. C. D. Reed, pastor of the Harlem Methodist hurch, and Rev. J. T. Robins, pastor of the Thomson Meth odist church officiating. The ser vices at the grave were conducted by members of the Blue Lodge of Har lem Masons. NEGRO STOLE GLTTA*R FROM GOSPEL TENT, VOW IN JAIL Tillman McCalpin, a y,>ung negro man about 19 years old, was arrest ed Saturday night and locked up for stealing a guitar from the Gospel tent at the corner of Journal and Greenway streets Sunday night a week ago. McCalpin lived in the vicinity of the ball park, and it was in one of the lockers used by the players when games are played at the park that he had hidden the stolen guitar. Chief Half- rescued the instrument and re turned it to Mrs. Dean at the Gospel tent. The negro is in jail awaiting trial at the next term of court. WILL OPEN NEW STORE ON RAILROAD STREET A new store will soon be opened up on Railroad street by Mr. R. L. Hadaway, of Hadaway’s Department Store. The business will be known as the Racket Store, and will be located in the Masonic building, where the Thomson Bee Hive was located prior to moving to present quarters. Mr. Hadaway will install an up- to-date stock of dry goods and furn ishings in his new place. Opening date will be announced later. quate appropriations, particularly at Fort Benning. The rivers and har bors of Georgia have received large allotments from the government. Such important work as the develop ment of pecans; the subjugation of the peach pest; ,the stations for boll weevil experiment work; telegraphic reports on market and crop condi tions for live stock, watermelons, peaches and other fruits and vege tables, have been assisted through Senator Harris’ efforts. He is the author of valuable legis lation written in the statutes of the 67th Congress, and several of his bills passed the Senate but failed of final action in the House. Among the laws which he introduced are the limitation of cost to $250,000 for the construction of Federal Reserve Bank buildings without consent of Con gress; the amendment to permit small state banks to enter the Feder al Reserve system; the amendments to the Federal Warehouse Act to broaden the scope of products which might be stored and to strengthen the warehouse receipts. Summing up the achievements and usefulness of a first term in the United States Senate, our Senior Sen ator from Georgia may well rest up on that record for a practical en dorsement in 1924, as a public serv ant who has fulfilled the scriptural standard, “Diligent in business, fer vent in Spirit”—serving the State. (Signed) JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES. R. S. HADAWAY BUYS STAR PRESSING CLUB Washington, T). C., Sept. 27. FARM LOAN LEGISLATION. Senator Borah lost no time in call ing on President Coolidge, upon his return to Washington. The next day the Washington Star published an editorial under the heading, “The Farmers’ Relief Problem.” This edi torial starts out with a thrill, as fol lows: “Wanted: A practical method of helping the American farmer under the conditions spelling ruin for many of the agriculturalists, now confront ing him. President Coolidge, his cab inet, Senator Borah of Idaho and other legislators are giving the mat ter their closest attention. If such a method can be found and plan form ed, requiring additional legislation, then Congress, Senator Borah be lieves, will be called in special ses sion by President Coolidge, who is in hearty sympathy with the plight of the farmers.” Senator Borah believes that it is essential—and so does the President —that a definite plan be approved by the administration before calling Congress together. “If we can’t agree on what should be done before an extra session is called, we would not be likely to agree afterward,” is the way the Idaho Senator puts it. Senator Borah points out that the farmer today is compelled to sell his products at pre-war prices and to buy his supplies at war prices, and at the same time he is compelled to pay treble the amount of taxes he paid before the war. There is a big crop of wheat and of other staples this year, all of which tends to de crease prices received by the farm er.” The Washington Post carried an editorial on “Farm Legislation” on the same day. “The permanency of the benefits claimed by Senator Len- root for the farm credits is proved by the relief it has effected,” bays the Post. “It enables the farmer to help himself, to dig himself into pros perity, to hold his own against changes of market. The Wisconsin Senator’s disclaimer of panacea prop erties for that law is self-proving. No legislation of the ‘cure-all’ variety can be devised for agriculture until Congress is vested with control of weather conditions, of world mar kets, of international relations and economic forces. This means that Congress deserves credit for the good it has done in the way of agricul tural relief legislation. There is a limit to the effectiveness of legisla tion in dealing with agricultural con ditions. Agriculture is subject to so many influences and forces beyond control of any governmental agency that it is folly to talk of enactment of laws that will insure the farmer against ills from every quarter. The sooner this is realized by self-styled ‘progressive’ champions of the agri cultural cause the better for all con cerned.” to the increase of 36 per cent in the number of children employed indus trially in the United States. He in formed the President of efforts in the past to stir up agitation on the subject, and told of representatives of eighteen national women’s organ izations having met with federation officers to form a national conference on child labor. He said they were in formed by expert counsel that be cause of the Supreme Court decision invalidating the child labor law, a constitutional amendment would be necessary. It is understood that they will wage the fight to put through such an amendment. BLAMES COAL COST CHIEFLY TO LABOR. The United States Coal Commis sion, in a report to the President on “Irregular Operation and Overde velopment of the Bituminous Indus try,” declares that labor disturb ances resulting in strikes are most serious obstacles to a super-abundant production of coal for the consump tion of the American people. The commission admitted that ineffective transportation machinery had a bear ing on shortage of fuel. THE RECLAMATION PROBE. Secretary of the Interior Work’s “fact-finding commission” has been invited to present “a blunt report of conditions, good of bad.” When the report is completed Work will pre sent it to the President and Congress. GOES FOR PRISONER. Sheriff A. D. Adkins left Wednes day morning for Atlanta to bring back a prisoner, Gip White, a negro well known in McDuffie county, who left here a while back. He is charg ed with cheating and swindling, sev eral warrants having been sworn out for him. Gip is the party of whom the story is told that he lost a quarter of a dollar in a lint room and struck Mr. R. S. Hadaway has purchased from Mr. Floyd Montgomery the Star Pressing Club, located on Jour nal street. After the first of October the pressing club will be located in the building now occupied by Mrs. Es telle Martin’s millinery parlors, which will be moved to the Wilson building on Main street as soon as remodeled. ROAD TAX NOTICE. Road Tax for McDuffie county is now due and can be paid if paid be fore the 10th of October for $1.50, . after that date it will be $2.00 to n !l n roperty loss everybody. Please see the collector or call at the court house and pay this and save moneyl Thi3 the 26th day of Sept., 1923. G. W. LOKEY, Ordinary. about $2,000. A little 26c ad in the "Want" column will «eli that article you want £. gat out or yonr way. BORAH WITHHOLDS PLAN. After his conference with President Coolidge, Senator Borah has decided to withhold his program for relief of the farmers, pending announce ment of the plans of the administra tion. Senator Borah said he .would much prefer that the executive department take the initiative in suggesting rem edial legislation, “as it would have more force back of it than if a mem ber of the Senate took the lead.” The Senator said he found the President keenly alive to the needs of the farmer, and the only question in the mind of the chief executive is the best thing to do to remedy that condition. He added that there was little discussion of the possibility of an extra session, as it seeems use less to issue such a call, as the Presi dent pointed out, unless some con crete program which could bring im mediate relief was advanced, and no such scheme is now in sight. QOMPERS REVIEWS CHILD LABOR LAWS. Restrictions of child labor in the United States through legislation that will stand review by the courts was discussed with President Cool idge by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of La bor, at the White House. It is be lieved that agitation of the subject will come at the opening of the next Congress. The labor leader pointed JAPAN’S GIGANTIC BUILDING PROGRAM. Housing opei-ations as America knows them even in war times, ap pear insignificant beside the scope of the building operations Japan now faces in reconstructing the great cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, says the Far Eastern Division of the De partment of Commerce. The latest reports place the destruction of build ings in the devastated areas at 316,- 000 in Tokyo, or about 71 per cent of the total number in that city, while Yokohama out of the 85,000 buildings standing before the disaster only 15,000 are left intact. The dis- truction in the outlying districts may bring the total of buildings destroyed up to the half million mark, the large majority of which are homes. This number, added to the housing short age that existed in Japan before the earthquake, will necessitate the con struction of dwelling houses on a large scale. Since Japan normally looks to the United states for about 60 per cent of its lumber require ments it is expected that the demand for American lumber during the re construction period will be very heavy. The price of Japanese lumber de livered c. i. f. Yokohama or Tokyo has been approximately 20 per cent higher than that of similar qualities of American lumber, and American freight rates have been favorable. The American market also finds itself in a favorable position as regards delivery. It often happens that the Japanese importer can secure deliv ery from Pacific ports to Yokohama in less time than from Hokkaido, Karafuto, or even from the northern Provinces of Japan proper. Japan’s preference for American lumber, aside from the price consid eration, is due, perhaps, more than anything else to the fact that our lumber is more nearly like that of Japan proper than the product of any other country from which it draws wood supplies. This similar ity of wood makes it possible for Japanese builders to substitute American lumber for Japanese in all building projects. In fact, its use has become so universal that Ameri can lumber is now specified in many instances. GRAVEL FINE FOR STREET PAVING Gravel procured from the farm of Mrs. Ira Farmer and placed on the street in front of the Thomson City Bank and Palace Drug Store seems to fill the bill as a covering for streets. The gravel hardens in a very short while and does not become soft and mucky as readily as other kinds of top soil. For this reason it would be the ideal material to use on all the streets of Thomson. The cost would be a minimum. If the city owned several acres of this soil it would be a permanent quarry from which to get paving material, and it is said it is almost as durab4e as as phalt paving, and surely not near so expensive, as the only work re quired to put it on is the hauling of the dirt and shaping up of the road bed. No doubt the city officials have this material in view since they are giving it a thorough test. ILL AT HOSPITAL. PLAN NOW C0TI0NSTALKS Kill the green cotton stalks two weeks or more before frost and save next years cotton crop. The most effective and practical measures of boll weevil control are proper poisoning and the killing of all green cotton stalks two weeks or more before frost. The destrution of the green stalks stops the raising of the young weevils and forces some of the grown weevils into hibernation early so that they have to come out very early in the spring. But the most important thing about killing the green stalks before the cold weather kills them is that nearly all your boll weevils starve to death and very few go into hibernation at all. The weevils that live through the winter and come out in the spemg are not those old ones that are worn out nor those that hatch out after frost, but those that hatch a week or two before frost and have squares, blooms, young bolb or tender leaves and buds of green and grownig cotton to feed on until frost. Boll weevils cannot have more than ten or twenty Thomson friends are much con cerned over the critical illness of Mr. Porter Reville, at the University , Hospital in Augusta. Mrs. Sallie dayS wlthout some ™ * of green and Reville, his mother of Jesup, is at his | grow ! ag cotton to c ' ak if the weather bedside, and hopes are entertained ” stlU warm enou * h for cotkon Lo for his recovery. He has been a stu- ! be green ’ 30 we starve them out if dent in the senior class of the Med-1 We klU the cotton ’ pll ' win * under ical College of Augusta, making fine I the st J alks after frosfc does littIe in progress in his studies. I regard to controlling the weevil, for few of the weevils in the field at that * — | time would live anyway, but killing to solve a problem is to get a legis- the stalks two or three weeks before lative body to rule against it.” HOW TO RAISE CALVES. The raising of dairy calves, begin ning, with the cow before the calf is frost will do a great deal of gopd. The greatest percentage of ''the weevils are killed if the stalks ax - o turned under with a plow, but this complete breaking of the land takes born and carrying the young stock ' 80 much time that sonie of the farm- along to two years of age, is the sub ject of a recent Farmer’s Bulletin, ers will not have time to break all their cotton land and finish two No. 1336, Feeding and Management wees beforG frosi - The stalks can b killed by ripping them up, either with a middle buster going once to the row or with a turn plow going twice to the row and either of these of Dairy Calves and Young Dairy Stock, now ready for distribution by the United States Department of Agriculture. REVISION OF ENTIRE SHIP POLICY. Attorney General Daugherty’s opinion submitted to President Cool idge holds that the Lasker-Farley plan for transferring the fleet to corporations organized under state laws would be unlawful under pro visions of the shipping act limiting disposition of the fleet to cash or credit sales. The proposed transfer of title to ships in considehation of stock in the corporation, the opinion held, is authorized neither expressly nor by any implication to be drawn from provisions of the act. That the government would in a “real and substantial sense” part with title to its vessels “must be ad mitted,” Mr. Daugherty said in con sidering the argument that the gov ernment as stockholder, would remain the real owner of the ships conveyed to the corporations. Corporations, he added, are legal entities, and their stockholders are withoujt legal title to their property. •■ms work LAWS. Americans have at least 100,000 laws to obey, according to the Wash ington Daily News, which comments: “An expert makes this estimate. He is too conservative. The last Con gress passed 930 new laws. And the various State Legislatures pass about 13,000 laws a year. We are too in- “HOW TO OWN YOUR HOME” MANUAL. “How to Own Your Home,” a man ual just issued for the public by the Department of Commerce, presents figures to show that the percentage of Washington home-owners rose from 24.2 in 1900 to 25.2 in 1910, and jumped to 30.3 in 1920. The manual contains a foreword by Sec retary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Subjects dealt with include making of loans, selection of the house, site, choosing of building plans and ma terials, and the cost of home main tenance. is faster than \broadcast breaking the land. Many have tried to kill the green. ’ stalks by cutting with a stalk cutter ■' or a disk harrow, but these always leave too many stalks that are too big to cut or break. To be most effective this should be done by October 15th, Many farmers will not have their cotton open in time this year, but most will have their cotton open in time to kill the cotton stalks two or three weeks before frost. Weevils will travel sometimes sev eral hundred yards going into and coming out of hibernation and an individual farmer who destroyed his stalks might get some of the weevils of his neighbors who didn’t, though he will have fewer weevils than if he had not destroyed his stalks. How ever, every farmer should do this for the sake of his neighbors if not for hiniself. Many of our community would do well to make this a community job and get everyone in it to kill his green cotton stalks. E. P. DREXEL, County Agent. LOSS IN MINED COAL ,OF 35 PER CENT. Bituminous coal lost to consump tion equals nearly 35 per cent of the possible total annual production, the Coal Commission reported to Presi dent Coolidge. The Commission listed 19.4 per cent as “avoidable” loss and 15.3 as arising from causes which normally could not be obviat ed. UNITED STATES SEEKS $2,500,000. Failing to reach a settlement by negotiation, the Shipping Board has instructed its legal department to terested in enacting new laws, not I prepare suit against the Bethlehem M. A. POTTER DIES IN INDIAN APOLIS. The following item taken from the Atlanta Constitution of Thursday, will be of interest to the people of Thomson, in that Mr. Potter was a brother of Mrs. J. H. Bartlett, of Thomson, and had visited here, many of our citizens doubtless having be come acquainted with him: “Word was received in Atlanta this week of the death on Tuesday, in Indianapolis, of M. A Potter, sen ior member of the firm of E. C. Atkins & Co., Inc. Mr. Potter was chairman of the board of directors of this company at the time of his death and had been closely associated with it ever since its foundation by E. C. Atkins, many years ago. “Mr. Potter was a prominent mem ber of the First Baptist church in Indianapolis and the funeral will be held from the church Thursday after noon. The Atlanta office of the firm at 132 South Forsyth street, will be closed all day Thursday on account of the funeral.” enough attention to enforcing laws we already have. Easy to under stand. We have a national mania for believing that all we have to do war contracts. Shipbuilding Corporation for recov ery of about $2,500,000 alleged to ENTERTAINMENT AT CALLA WAY. There will be given at Callaway school an entertainment on Saturday night, October 6th, for the benefit of the school. Everybody is cordially have been overpaid under the firm’s | invited and urged to be present. I There will be plenty of fun for all.